Welcome to Blackpast

Welcome to BlackPast

This 7,266 page reference center is dedicated to providing information to the general public on African American history and the history of more than one billion people of African ancestry around the world.  We invite you to explore and use all the resources of BlackPast.

Explore African American History

Kevin Johnson: Mayor of Sacramento
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Kevin Maurice Johnson (1966- )
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Friends of Negro Freedom (1920-1930)
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Johnson C. Whittaker (1858-1931)
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John Edward Reinhardt (1920- )

Explore Global African History

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Cécile Kyenge (1964- )
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Yelena Khanga (1962- )
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(1959) Nnamdi Azikiwe Honors Kwame Nkrumah on his Visit to Eastern Nigeria
Rudolph Dunbar
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W. Rudolph Dunbar (1907-1988)

Perspectives in African American and Global African History

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Pacific Bound: California’s 1852 Fugitive Slave Law
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The Racial Politics of Miss America
Africa in 1595 as known to Italian explorers and cartographers
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Africa and Africans in the Imagination of Renaissance Italians (1450-1630)
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Eleven Years in the U.S. Navy: The Strange Saga of Robert Shorter

Special Features & Resources

101 African American Firsts
Genealogy Resources
Major African American Office Holders since 1641
STEM Innovators

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